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Unemployment for Immigrants and the US-Born

 

Unemployment for Immigrants and the US-Born

Articles - Sunday, February 1, 2009

The Center for Immigration Studies has prepared a detailed employment breakdown for immigrants and native-born Americans based on December 2008 data, the latest publicly available. (The Department of Labor generally does not separate out unemployment statistics for immigrants and the nativeborn.) Among US-born blacks and Hispanics without a high school degree, unemployment is 24.7 percent and 16.2 percent respectively — two to three times the national rate.

By Steve Camarota -- Center for Immigration Studies

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